Shaved Monkey wrote:Seeing PO and telling the world
No one wants to hear that.
Dubya told Americans to go shopping now thats a leader.
Carter had gas lines. Reagan didn't. So what's that mean there was peak oil then not? That crisis was about OPEC. Overall lesson? Even Democrats had better have a pro energy policy, because nobody likes a gas line.
Carter wasn't all bad; pro working class, the last last liberal prez there was. Yet inflation was out of control and economy in bad recession. It needed some some reaganism, maybe we got too much reaganism, but it did grow the economy and fix the economic problem.
The peace accords, that was good. And he was honest. But too honest, too goody goody, and that was weakness. And so he lost to Reagan -- gas lines, inflation up, the military was weak, and he failed to free the hostages.
About W. and shopping -- what he meant by that is that no, you can't have 300 million people just staying home and not going to work or engaging in commerce. That alone is worse than terrorism -- it could crash the entire economy, everything grinding to a halt.
That's an unfair jab at Bush -- the danger of terrorism are those larger effects, being terrorized, vs. the actual incidental violence.
Australia's no different -- the economy could collapse if people panicked and did not engage in commerce and go about normal life.
EDIT: I shouldn't be such a jerk, Carter was a good man. But it's like the workplace, someone can be such a good person but just not right for the job, is all. Nixon's dishonesty got honest Carter elected, but yet a Nixon could have freed those hostages.
Enter Reagan. Iran contra was shady, but, at least he didn't break into DNC hq or have enemies lists.